MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS 回忆与肖像

MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS 1 MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS By R. L. Stevenson 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS 2 CHAPTER I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME "This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin' o't." Two recent books (1) one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on ......